Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:00:44 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [VM] 2.4.14/15-pre4 too "swap-happy"? |
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> After two or three days the used swap-space is around 3 MB. I just > played MP3s and no X and no other "big" applications were running. > This isn't really a problem but it doesn't look good. Just because of > cache swap gets full :(
"This isn't really a problem" is a good analysis of the situation, since 2.4.14/15 often have data duplicated in both swap and RAM, so being 3MB into swap doesn't mean 3MB of your programs isn't in RAM.
If you take a look at /proc/meminfo, you'll find a field called "SwapCached:", which tells you exactly how much of your memory is duplicated in both swap and RAM.
regards,
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